We have a Skype gateway tied into our PBX to reduce LD costs and it's fantastic! Many of our people travel over seas and instead of paying retarded long distance costs now, they just use the hotel's high speed network and Skype into our gateway, then make what amounts to a local call through our PBX. Great system!
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Tim Evans <tev...@sparling.com> wrote: > Thanks for the comments. Sounds like we're going to proceed with it. > > > > > > …Tim > > > > *From:* Ken Cornetet [mailto:ken.corne...@kimball.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:13 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Skype > > > > We are deploying it here to a few users. > > > > I'm using group policy to turn off being a supernode, downloads, listening > on tcp ports, and 3rd party access to the Skype API. > > > > Our security folks reviewed it and are happy. > > > > *From:* Tim Evans [mailto:tev...@sparling.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:01 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Skype > > > > Has anyone looked at Skype recently? We've got a client that wants us to > use Skype for communications with them. I've always been a little leery of > using them in a business environment, but looking at it now, I see they have > a MSI download for easy deployment and a group policy template for central > administration of settings. It all looks pretty cool. While the security guy > in me wants to say no, I'm having a hard time finding a reason not to say > OK. > > > > I'm curious what the members of this esteemed group think about it > > > > > > …Tim > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
